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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.47
জালিয়া কহে, — “ইহাঁ এক মনুষ্য না দেখিল ।
জাল বাহিতে এক মৃতক মোর জালে আইল ॥ ৪৭ ॥
jāliyā kahe, — “ihāṅ eka manuṣya nā dekhila
jāla vāhite eka mṛtaka mora jāle āila
The fisherman replied, “I have not seen a single person here, but while casting my net in the water, I captured a dead body.
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The fisherman replied that he had not seen a single person there.
He explained that he had been casting his net in the water.
He reported capturing what he described as a dead body; this was his understanding of the discovery.
Desperate longing and relief. Mistaking the sea for Yamunā, the Lord enters it; devotees find and revive Him.
The mood of Antya 18 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
As soon as the fisherman touched the Lord’s body, he became mad in ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa. His own madness frightened him, however, because he thought that he was being haunted by a ghost.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you distinguish what someone reports seeing from their understanding of it?
Reread the fisherman’s reply today, noting separately what he was doing and what he thought he had found.
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